form validation 1

kelly5518 · Feb 2, 2006

Hi,

Can someone tell me what's wrong with this code that it's not working:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function validateForm(){
stripSpaces(frm)
function stripSpaces(frm) {
    var x = frm.email.value;
    frm.email.value = (x.replace(/^\W+/,'')).replace(/\W+$/,'');
    var z = frm.Message.value;
    frm.Message.value = (z.replace(/^\W+/,'')).replace(/\W+$/,'');
   }
if (document.form1.email.value ==""){
alert ("Please enter your email.");
document.form1.email.focus();
return false;
}
if (document.form1.Message.value == ""){
alert("Please enter your message.");
return false;
}
return true;
}
</script>

Thans a bunch,

rac2 · Feb 2, 2006

Not working" covers a lot of territory. What is it not doing? What error message are you getting?

kelly5518 · Feb 2, 2006

Sorry, no error message, it's just going ahead and sending the form through and it should strip spaces then check for empty form fields.

rac2 · Feb 2, 2006

Have you assigned a value to a variable named frm somewhere else in your script? If not that is the problem and you could do that like so -

Code:

<html>
...
<form onsubmit="validateForm(this)">
...
<script type="text/javascript">
function validateForm(frm){
  stripSpaces(frm)
...
</script>
...
</html>

Regular expressions are not my strong point so i cannot evaluate those. You might get some more information by adding an alert("before: " + x) and an alert("after:" + frm.email.value) inside the stripSpaces function. This is just for debugging, remove them when you solve the problem.

HTH.

kelly5518 · Feb 2, 2006

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks so much rac2!

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